17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Actually it allows you to imbed data and commands to run. What the latest MSWord virus did is imbed a virus dropper encoded in the word document and then run it trough the dos debug command to make it a binary file (if you ever read the 40HEX virus magazine you should know how this works). From there it just run the dropper.
You could make a worm out of this Netscape bug by having it look for a user's homepage when it infects, and then inserting the URL into that page.